Today’s candidate forum in the Stamford Holiday Inn was kind of like watching the first 100 yards of the Kentucky Derby, except there wasn’t a lot of dirt and certainly not much mud, flying.
Republican Tom Foley, who seems to be ready to spend as many million of his own dollars as it takes to become governor, tried to take a perceived position against Dan Malloy, the Democrat who has the most experience governing, with 14 years working as Stamford’s mayor.
Foley: “If you’re talking about investing in people and investing in infrastructure and laying the nest and feathering the nest for targeted industry to come into this state, I’m a total supporter of that. But governments are not good pickers of winners and that is well established and I don’t think the state of Connecticut should be investing in companies and choosing which companies and those industries are going to be the ones who win.”
Malloy took the position that Rell should not have purchased $90 million worth of buses manufactured in another state. “I would have invested $90 million in fuel cell technology in this state, bolstering an industry in this state, so we could participate in the growth of that industry as we can reasonable predict it’s going to play out in the next 20 years.”